Dress Fabric
1825-1880 (made)
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Dress fabric of figured silk. With a small scale design of sprays of white flowers and a network of scrolling blue fronds on a pale blue ground. The flower spray contains one trumpet-shaped flower and a multiple stem of tiny flowers. It is repeated in reverse in a half-drop repeat. The silks are Jacquard woven. Tabby ground with a warp of blue silk and weft of white silk. Warp twill for the blue fronds. The white flowers are formed by floating on the surface a proportion of the weft.
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Materials and techniques | Jacquard woven silk |
Brief description | Dress fabric of Jacquard woven silk, possibly woven at Spitalfields, 1825-1880. |
Physical description | Dress fabric of figured silk. With a small scale design of sprays of white flowers and a network of scrolling blue fronds on a pale blue ground. The flower spray contains one trumpet-shaped flower and a multiple stem of tiny flowers. It is repeated in reverse in a half-drop repeat. The silks are Jacquard woven. Tabby ground with a warp of blue silk and weft of white silk. Warp twill for the blue fronds. The white flowers are formed by floating on the surface a proportion of the weft. |
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Credit line | Given by Mrs H. Hammond |
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Accession number | T.41-1968 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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